My formal art education began in the 1960’s at Cal Poly S.L.O., West Valley College in Saratoga, Mission College in San Jose, Santa Clara University, private workshops, and independent studies.
As a student, I was involved in ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, abstract and representational painting, photography, commercial art, advertising design, and art history.
I began painting in acrylics. After a year I switched to oils, fell in love with the medium, and have been painting in oils ever since.
I have done intense independent studies of : The Impressionists and their evolutionary, descendants, with a special emphasis on Cezanne. The Abstract Expressionists of the New York School. The California plein air painters.
Having grown up in San Luis Obispo, King City and Los Gatos in the ‘50’s & 60’s, the California coastal landscape became an integral part of who I am. Recalling the sense memories of those environs of my youth has been a driving force in my attempts to capture a timeless essence in my landscapes.
In addition to the inspiration of my native California, travels throughout the United States and Europe have given me the opportunity to capture that same essence from the experiences
I am driven to express my interpretation of the world around me, filtered through my own esthetic sensibility.
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For more information, contact Murray
by email: mcblur@earthlink.net
Visit his Web site at www.murraywagnon.com
Murray is also a member of the Monterey Bay Plein Air Painters Association
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